July 23, 2002
Houston, We Have Stupidity

Here we have a story in yesterday’s Houston Chronicle about a pack of interns at NASA who stole a 600 pound safe containing 10 ounces of moon rock and fragments of a Martian meteorite. I just don’t know where to begin with this one - do I start with the fact that the theft wasn’t noticed for two days, or with the kids getting busted when they tried to sell the rocks on the Internet?

Then there’s the man who turned them in, referred to in the article repeatedly as "the Belgian". Just who is this mysterious Belgian?

And more importantly, how do you make a Belgian waffle?